An Anthropology of Images : picture, medium, body / Hans Belting ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
An Anthropology of Images : picture, medium, body / Hans Belting ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
An Anthropology of Images : picture, medium, body / Hans Belting ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford, [Eng.] : Princeton University Press, c2011.
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N301/335
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English
German
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Physical Description
Physical content
v, 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
A New Introduction for the English Reader -- An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body -- The Locus of Images: The Living Body -- The The Coat of Arms and the Portrait: Two Media of the Body -- Image and Death: Embodiment in Early Cultures -- Media and Bodies: Dante's Shadows and Greenaway's...
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford, [Eng.] : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
" ... proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore, our bodies.: -- Book jacket.
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An Anthropology of Images : picture, medium, body / Hans Belting ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
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"First published in Germany under the title Bild-Anthropologie: Entwürfe für eine Bildwissenschaft. c2001 by Verlag Wilhelm Fink, Munich. Second edition 2002 by Verlag Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn/Germany."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-187) and index.
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c2011.
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N301/335
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ISBN
9780691145006 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
301
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991009276679702626
